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Leidos awarded $150 million NIH follow-on contract for software development services

By TechTaffy Desk

Leidos has been awarded a follow-on contract by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide a wide range of software development services in support of the Office of Extramural Research (OER).

The single award, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a one-year base period of performance followed by four one-year option periods, and an approximate value of $150 million, if all options are exercised. Work will be performed in Bethesda, MD, the company said in a statement.

Under the contract, Leidos will provide software development services including design, development, and application testing services following the eRA Agile software development lifecycle.

[Image courtesy: Leidos]

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